Sunday, February 05, 2012

It’s pretty easy to assume that the power and influence of today’s world is carried solely through channels of modern technological communication. The real change and progress always happens directly through the direct interaction between, at first, two people and then perhaps spreading to more.

In history, disasters have destroyed electronic lines of communication, and even if telephones, radio transmissions and the like were not operating, it all came down to the direct cooperation of real live people working together. It’s amazing what people can do when they know that, as a group, they need to work together in order to survive.

High technology du jour can be a wonderful tool in helping to accomplish great things, but ultimately, only people moving forth on their own willful device will actually accomplish anything worthwhile. The technology has never been, is not and never will be realized without us. Always place the people as the primary purpose. Technology should be implemented and utilized to improve and serve the human race, and not just to placate and pander to it with irrelevant toys and pastimes simply for profit.

The people of this planet are the hub of the very essence of technological progress. Too much backwards thinking is applied in this regard nowadays. This basic human network is the only true hope we have in the future. It is the oldest communications pipeline in history.